La Matriz Birth Services
About
Tema Mercado is Xicana mother of six children, grandmother, wife, and licensed midwife.
She was born and raised in San Jose, California and studied for a short time in Mexicali, Baja California. Tema has dedicated the past 20 years in the service of women at different capacities, Gang Intervention Specialist, Sexual Assault Counselor, Perinatal Health Educator, Teen Parent Advocate, Breastfeeding Peer Counselor and Birth Doula. After being a doula for some time Tema came to a...
Owner Name
Tema Mercado
Phone
Website
Care Offered
Accepting New Clients
Yes
Location
Areas Served
- San Diego County, CA
- Mission Viejo, CA
- California, USA
Do you offer virtual services?
hybrid
HQ/Office Address
3633 Camino del Rio South suite 206, San Diego, CA 92108, USA
Events
La Matriz Birth Services
Spinning Babies Two Day Workshop
Description
Improve labor outcomes with a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop. Learn our physiological techniques that offer a complete system of birth preparation and labor ease concepts to improve labor with the baby's position.
The 2-day workshop covers the same curriculum as the 1-day workshop at an easy-to-integrate pace with additional time for more hands-on practice. Feel confident in how to apply the Spinning Babies® approach to help birthing families in community, clinical, and hospital settings.
Spinning Babies® begins with fetal rotation to reveal the lesser-known physiology of birth anatomy. Your passion, our approach. Start seeing solutions in labor progress with this new lens on childbirth.
After this workshop you will be able to:
Facilitate comfort in pregnancy and ease in childbirth for your clients
Improve fetal position without manipulation of the fetus
Identify issues faster; gentle actions to shorten a long labor or avoid a cesarean
Use less (or no) force to resolve malposition and labor dystocia
And much, much more!
Spinning Babies® Three Principles SM, Three Balances SM, and Pelvic Levels Solutions SM offers the world’s first complete system of birth preparation and labor ease concepts using baby’s position. Physiological techniques change the effective size of the pelvis through the body’s own innate capacity to resolve or prevent labor dystocia.
Completing a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop is the prerequisite for our Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop and advanced training programs.
What Makes This Workshop Special
The 2 Day workshop includes everything the 1 Day workshops includes and more. The 2 day workshop allows you to take in the Spinning Babies paradigm at a slower embodied pace. Extra time allows us to critically think about scenarios and how to best apply techniques.
Who May Attend
We welcome all professionals who serve people in their pregnancy and birth. Ideal for midwives, nurses, nurse practitioners, doulas, and childbirth educators. Also attended by obstetricians, family medicine doctors, prenatal yoga instructors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, perinatal case managers, and community health workers. Recommended for people new to Spinning Babies®, as well as those who have been practicing it for years.
CEs are available for some participants, as noted in the Continuing Education section.
Food and Refreshments
Coffee and pastries will be provided each morning. Please bring your own water and lunch. We will break for lunch about 12:30 pm each day.
Special Notes
Equity Access Statement for each of my workshops:
Access for Black and Indigenous Professionals - Spinning Babies® is committed to anti-racism and oppression. Please read our Anti-Racism statement here. I offer equity seats access to every single one of my workshops. Equity Seats are offered to Black, Indigenous and other Birth Professionals in an effort to reduce the gross inequalities within the maternal / infant mortality that affect these communities disproportionately. I make two full Equity Seats available and two partial pay Equity Seats available for every single one of my workshops. Seats are often first come first serve. To request a seat , please email temamercado@spinningbabies.com.
Mar 28, 2026 · San Diego, CA
